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yaramaz
Joined: 05 Mar 2003
Posts: 2384
Location: Not where I was before
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dmb, does your gf know I am having an affair with you? I suppose I should have mentioned it at lunch today. Whups.
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Did you travel there by bus?
Did you stay in a hostel?
Did you eat in cheap places because you were on a tight budget? |
1. I flew to Cairo- THY- very nice, then got a taxi to the hotel.
2. I stayed in 2 different hotels, both decent with en suite private rooms, with the final one being a really funky retro old ex officers club (ıt was in Around the World in 80 days with Michael Palin).
3. Everything in Cairo is cheap so it was pretty hard to avoid it. I tended to eat a bit more expensively because I dont like egyptian street food. No Mc Donalds because ı dont like it.
Why would I take the bus to Egypt, btw? |
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thrifty
Joined: 25 Apr 2006
Posts: 1665
Location: chip van
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| Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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Why would I take the bus to Egypt, btw?
Because it is cheaper and the TEFLer way. |
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yaramaz
Joined: 05 Mar 2003
Posts: 2384
Location: Not where I was before
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| Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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Quite a long journey, innit? You'd probably end up spending more on physiotherapy after a bus trip from Ist-Egypt than on a flight.
I am fascinated by your insistence that teflers can'tafford to fly (or eat or anything). Maybe you are just autistic and can't say anything else. A rainman thing. Ever get it checked out by a doctor? |
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dmb
Joined: 12 Feb 2003
Posts: 8397
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| Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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| I took a journey once from Ist. to Diyarbikar. 46 hours. that was long... tefltastic long. |
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thrifty
Joined: 25 Apr 2006
Posts: 1665
Location: chip van
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:00 am Post subject: |
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In the UK does being autistic mean you get anything from the social? Does anybody know?
TEFLers do it cheaply, it ia the TEFL law. |
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ghost
Joined: 30 Jan 2003
Posts: 1693
Location: Saudi Arabia
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:57 pm Post subject: Bread does not make a fatty! |
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It is a myth that bread makes one fat. Bread and/or other carbohydrates should constitute the base and major part of most diets.....
Look at countries in Asia where carbs (in rice form) form the base of the diet. The people there, in their large majority, are quite slim and fit compared with North Americans or other `developed` populations.
In order to maintain a healthy body weight, you should have an adequate balance of carbs, proteins and fats, and basically stick to the pyramid, in which the largest base is composed of carbs, and as you go up, you have less proteins, and fats, and then limited sweets and the like. Think pyramid.....
The problem in Turkey, is that the ubiquitous corner store is in fact a junk food junkies`dream, with all those Ulker chocolate cookies and different varieties of chips and soft drinks.
Ghost went up to 80 kilos in Turkey, but last year in Taiwan, was back down to 73 kilos, and switched to a diet incoroporating soy milk and tofu, among other things. But ghost`s carbs inload remained unchanged.
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billybuzz
Joined: 05 Jan 2006
Posts: 219
Location: turkey
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 11:20 am Post subject: fat and feeling great !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| Yep the food here is so delich that I just pig out all the time much better than the crap back home in the U.K . |
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Golightly
Joined: 08 Feb 2005
Posts: 877
Location: in the bar, next to the raki
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Yep, I'm looking forward to pigging out big style when I'm back in the 'Stan from wednesday....... |
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mongrelcat
Joined: 12 Mar 2004
Posts: 232
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm just looking forward to getting to Ist where they actually HAVE food. |
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yaramaz
Joined: 05 Mar 2003
Posts: 2384
Location: Not where I was before
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Did Ataturk ban food rations in Ankara? |
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Mikana51
Joined: 15 Jan 2006
Posts: 41
Location: Istanrubble
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| Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:43 am Post subject: Re: Bread does not make a fatty! |
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| ghost wrote: |
Ghost went up to 80 kilos in Turkey, but last year in Taiwan, was back down to 73 kilos, and switched to a diet incoroporating soy milk and tofu, among other things. But ghost`s carbs inload remained unchanged.
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However, soy products, especially tofu, are notorious for creating typhoons of flatulence in the unhabituated. Does ghost find itself making frequent rearend explosions and extended glottal stops? Are the Taiwanese staying away from ghost and wearing pegs on their noses? |
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ghost
Joined: 30 Jan 2003
Posts: 1693
Location: Saudi Arabia
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| Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:19 pm Post subject: reply |
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| Does ghost find itself making frequent rearend explosions and extended glottal stops? Are the Taiwanese staying away from ghost and wearing pegs on their noses? |
Ghost quickly became used to using soy milk and tofu, because they are everywhere in Taiwan, easy to use, nutritious and not laden with harmful fat.
It should be noted, however, that the major reason ghost suspects it (ghost) lost weight was because it increased its exercise regimen from 20-30 minutes (3-4 times a week) to between 1-2 hours a day of exercise, in an attempt to retard the ageing process and get rid of a previously unhealthy looking 'pot belly.'
In Taiwan, ghost stuck to a strict regimen of exercise, cycling to work and back (in a country, Taiwan, where everyone uses scooters and not pedal bikes), swimming 2000 meters every lunch break, and running 4 miles on a hilly circuit as well as walking with weights up hill and down a bunch of steps in the Ching Shueh locale, near Shalu, Taichung County, Taiwan. So, exercise was the key, and diet came second.
Ghost has always had a problem with consumption of 'junk food' dating back to the days ghost was a resident in a boarding school in Ireland, where visits to the tuck shop were the highlights of the school residents' life.
Up to the age of about 35, ghost could eat anything it wanted, but around that age (post 35) ghosts' metabolism slowed down, quite dramatically, and although ghost was eating the same stuff it used to, the weight came on, because the ghost body was no longer burning the calories as in the past. Sad reality of ageing, which most on this forum have not yet experienced, but it will come.
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almuze
Joined: 25 Oct 2004
Posts: 125
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I lost a lot of wieght when we moved here, but I think it had more to do with walking everywhere (sadly, our car was not allowed as an "extra carry on" when we flew over.... we didn't take the bus either, Thrifty....)
anyway, we came, we walked, we lost wieght. |
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thrifty
Joined: 25 Apr 2006
Posts: 1665
Location: chip van
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| Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Turks don't walk and they don't read books. |
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molly farquharson
Joined: 16 Jun 2004
Posts: 839
Location: istanbul
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| Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:30 am Post subject: |
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i lost 40 lb when I got here. Much of it came back when i was sitting on my butt out at Koc Univ, but it has mostly gone since I have lived in the city. I walk 2-5km day getting to work. i never used to like walking, but i really like it now. I have legs of steel-- wish it would spread! I think the diet here is excellent-- fresh food, high quality produce, etc, and lots of yogurt. I learned to walk about from a Turkish friend, and i would say that the Turks I know do indeed walk a lot, partly because in Beyoglu there is not a choice for getting around the area, and for some because it is cheaper.
As for reading, I ride the metro every day and i see some people reading books, some reading newspapers, and most just looking around. I'm in the last group. I read at home, and if Turkish people do too we wouldn't know, would we? but then some people are experts on everything... |
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